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Tigranes the Great: Armenia's Empire That Challenged Rome
Long before the Ottoman and Safavid partitions, before the genocide and the republic, Armenia once ruled an empire stretching from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. This episode follows the rise and fall of Tigranes the Great, the Artaxiad king who built a short-lived superpower at the crossroads of Rome and Parthia. We explore his early years as a hostage in Parthia, his marriage to Cleopatra of Pontus, the founding of Tigranocerta, and the catastrophic miscalculation that brought Lucullus and Pompey to his doorstep. How did a client king become 'King of Kings'? And why did his…
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